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If a forwarded email is received by someone that had imbedded pictures, but they showed up as boxes with x’s, the SENDER may re-send using a copy of the email with the pictures, but sending it as an original, not a forward. The sender highlights and copies the email, pastes it on a new email and sends it to the recipient. It will work every time.

This was suggested by my ISP, Earthlink, on my Comcast cable connection. They said that successive forwarding sometimes corrupts the imbedded pictures. I don’t know how to restore a corrupted picture email without having the sender re-send by the above process.  In other words, I can’t take a received box with a little x and do anything with it by myself. Earthlink could not help me with that aspect.

Perhaps there is someone in HAL-PC that can shed some light on a fix.  It is interesting that some recipients of a forwarded embedded email that I send receive it just fine, while others get a corrupted version.

To see my mea culpa and a further discussion of overscanning vs upsampling to pump up the pixel count to enlarge an existing print Click Here.

Is there a software product out there that helps one build a composite photo display [as opposed to printed hard copy] comprised of either 4 or 6 individual photos arranged in either a 2 X 2 or a 2 X 3 matrix? I am trying to put together a slide show on DVD that would show a matrix of about 4″ by 6″ pictures at one time. Once I get the pages of pictures assembled, I would then add some voice narration for each page.

Do you know of any product that provides the capability to build these matrices of pictures? Thanks for the help

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Leo Waltz emailed me this because pictures cannot be included in replies.

How about this example with 3 x 2 horizontal:

These were automatically generated from selected files in a folder, but it’s a snap with Diji Album from
http://xequte.com but for some reason that product is no longer on their home page, so try here:
http://www.xequte.com/dijialbum/ and we find it !! The program has a lot of versatility beyond this.
http://www.xequte.com/software and note the “more software” link at the bottom of the page.
Yes, you can insert a sound file or record directly with the program.

• Layers can only be saved using your picture editor’s native file format (*.psd for photoshop, *.psp for Paint Shop Pro, etc) and TIFF. TIFF will save layers and is a universal format rather than a proprietary one but I haven’t used it in several years and am not sure if it has kept up with all the newer features. I would use your editor’s native format and worry about converting later if that ever comes up.
• PhotoShop Elements does not support layer masks innately but go here to get an Add-in for this feature

  http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselements/p/layermasks.htm

– jim

The Hammacher Schlemmer Co. advertises a slide and film negative scanner that’s small and portable. I would be interested in knowing opinions from other members of our Digital Photo SIG whether there is enough data on the specifications for this device to make a judgement about “will it really do a good job” or would a good scanner be a better choice for this job.  Are other specs needed to make a decision and, if so, what are they? I w0uld also be interested in learning what other devices members use (just) for slide and film negative scanning. Go here:

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74083.asp?promo=QSearch

Thanks for posting this.

I’ve recently picked up a BinoCam Binocular Camera, and for some reason cannot seem to get the thing to download pics that I take.  The camera seems to shut down before I can activate a  download.  Just wondering if you’ve had some experience with these cameras?  I went by Wolf Camera Store but the Tech said that he did not know anything about these type digital cameras that are intended for Bird Watching and long distance pics.

Any help would be appreciated as I did not locate much over the Internet.